236 ENTOMOtOGICAt NEWS. [June, '18 



"The destruction and cleaning up of cotton in and surrounding the 

 districts in Texas invaded by the pink boll worm is now practically 

 completed for the crop of 1917 .... A total of 8794 acres of cotton 

 land has been cleared of standing and scattered cotton at an average 

 cost of $9.94 per acre. The cotton fields cleaned represent 657 owners 

 or tenants .... Proclamations have been issued by the Governor 

 of Texas quarantining the known infested districts in Texas .... 

 Within these areas the growing of cotton is designated a public menace 

 and is prohibited for a term of three years, or so long as such condi- 

 tion of menace to the cotton industry shall be deemed to exist." The 

 boll weevil and the pink boll worm are still found in Arizona. 



Indications are favorable for outbreaks of grasshoppers in the west- 

 ern half of Kansas and in Montana, and of plant lice in Wisconsin. 



"The general situation in regard to insecticides over the country is 

 favorable as regards the amount of materials on hand or apparently 

 available. A considerable increase in cost of certain classes of insecti- 

 cides, however, is to be noted, especially arsenical insecticides, lime- 

 sulphur preparations and fish-oil soaps." Prof. A. L. Lovett, of Ore- 

 gon, expresses the belief that a more thoroughly organized effort 

 among entomologists for making tests of insecticides is desirable. 



Several entomologists who have entered the Sanitary Corps of the 

 Army having expressed a desire to keep in touch with problems which 

 are being met by other entomologists, contributions from entomologists 

 at the training camps will be welcome and will be given a separate 

 heading in future numbers of these Reports. Screw-worm flies ap- 

 peared in unusual numbers in April in certain parts of Texas, wh'ch 

 is partly ascribed to the large number of carcasses of animals which 

 died as a result of the extreme drought in southwest Texas and were 

 not properly cared for. In the absence of Prof. W. B. Herms, now a 

 Captain in the Sanitary Service, the mosquito survey of California will 

 be continued this year by Prof. S. B. Freeborn and the State Board of 

 Health, and it is hoped to complete it this year. A malarial mosquito 

 survey of Missouri is under way. 



"The exports of 1917 honey to Europe, especially to the United King- 

 dom, have exceeded by far any previous year. During the winter it 

 was common for more honey to leave for Europe in ten days than in 

 any year previous to 1914. Imports have been very heavy, but honey 

 is now included in the list of articles of which the imports are restricte.l 

 . . . ■ . Requests for help in the work [of Apiculture] espe- 

 cially for the service of extension men, are far greater than can be 

 filled because of a lack of both money and available men." 



The State Entomologist of Connecticut writes : "Here we are short- 

 handed and it is hard to get help. Our funds are somewhat limited, and 

 this probably is the case at many of the state institutions." 



